{"id":29381,"date":"2025-05-17T09:53:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=29381"},"modified":"2025-05-17T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T13:53:36","slug":"colombian-police-arrest-suspect-in-peru-mine-workers-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/05\/17\/colombian-police-arrest-suspect-in-peru-mine-workers-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian police arrest suspect in Peru mine workers’ killings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police in Colombia<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>have arrested a man suspected of being involved in the killing of 13 kidnapped workers at a gold mine in neighbouring Peru.<\/b><\/p>\n

Miguel Antonio Rodr\u00edguez D\u00edaz, whose alias is “Cuchillo” (knife), was arrested in the city of Medellin in a joint operation between the two countries and Interpol, according to Peru’s interior ministry and Colombian police.<\/p>\n

The bodies of the miners were recovered on 4 May from a tunnel at a mine in the Pataz district of Peru.<\/p>\n

A lawyer for Mr Diaz has denied his involvement in the killings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Peru is one of the largest gold producers in Latin America and has seen a surge in violence from illegal miners and organised criminal gangs.<\/p>\n

The 13 men killed in Pataz had been sent to confront a group which had attacked and occupied the mine but were ambushed and seized as they were trying to regain control of it, Peruvian authorities said.<\/p>\n

Mr Diaz is suspected of allegedly ordering the storming of the mine’s entrance, with the aim of stealing gold extracted by miners,\u00a0Peru’s interior ministry said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He is accused of “organised crime, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated homicide”, it added.<\/p>\n

A video posted by authorities showed him being detained by armed police in a busy downtown area of Medellin.<\/p>\n

Colombian police chief Carlos Triana said Mr Diaz was located with the support of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and was subject to an Interpol red notice.<\/p>\n

Peru’s interior ministry\u00a0<\/b>said they expected Mr Diaz to be extradited to Peru in the coming days.<\/p>\n

La Poderosa, which owns the mine where the murders took place, previously said 39 people with links to the company have been killed by criminal gangs in Pataz in total.<\/p>\n

This most recent attack prompted Peru’s President Dina Boluarte to impose a night-time curfew in Pataz and to suspend mining activities for a month. Extra police and soldiers were also sent to the region.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police in Colombia\u00a0have arrested a man suspected of being involved in the killing of 13 kidnapped workers at a gold mine in neighbouring Peru. Miguel Antonio Rodr\u00edguez D\u00edaz, whose alias is “Cuchillo” (knife), was arrested […]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[2800,2707,3479,8925,10751,4326,11283,5287,7271],"class_list":{"0":"post-29381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world","9":"tag-colombia","10":"tag-extradition","11":"tag-interpol","12":"tag-interpol-red-notice","13":"tag-medellin","14":"tag-mining","15":"tag-pataz","16":"tag-peru","17":"tag-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","18":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29383,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29381\/revisions\/29383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}